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Technical Standards Governance & IP Policy

01 Technical Standards Governance & IP Policy · 15 edit slice
3
orgs
15
activities
5
strategies
AZ
epicenter
the opening take
This slice touches 3 organizations and 15 activities — VMEBUS INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION, AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INDEXING, ARIZONA PIRG EDUCATION FUND and others. Activity concentrates in Arizona (100%). The field's most common shared approach is "Compliance-Governed Technology Exchange", run by 1 orgs.
VMEBUS INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION and AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INDEXING hold roughly a third of all activity — know those first.
pull-quote · for funders
who to look at first

shortlist

Ranked by activity breadth, method diversity, and network reach across the slice. Attach a memo to this report and this list re-ranks around your intent.

where this slice is thin

gap signals

Concrete structural gaps — method mix, geographic concentration, coalition density, funder diversity. Evidence is cited from the slice's own numbers.

where the field lives · works

geography

Orange headquarters dots are sized by how many grantees are based in the state. Green circles mark real locations these orgs say they serve — from city-level populations in this slice's impact_map_populations data. Toggle layers at the bottom right.

regional breakdown · hq density
Arizona 100% · 3 orgs
who's here

organizations in this field · 3

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direct service advocacy research capacity building
how the field thinks

strategies in this slice

Theories of action extracted from the orgs in this slice. The count is how many orgs cite each one — a strategy run by many orgs in common is a through-line; one cited by a single org is still surfaced so the reader can gauge the full spread.

where strategy meets practice

strategies × activity types

How each shared strategy breaks down across the four activity types the orgs running it actually do.

direct service
advocacy
research
capacity building
Compliance-Governed Technology Exchange
1
3
2
5
Consumer Data Watchdog
1
Independent Public Watchdog
1
Legacy Recognition
1
3
2
5
Regulatory Advocacy for Data Privacy
1
who works with whom

named partnerships · coalitions · networks

Entities these orgs explicitly call out as partners, coalition members, or networks. Unlike the strategy-sharing graph below (which is inferred from shared approaches), these are relationships the orgs claim on their own sites.

ANSI Partner
shared by 1 org
ANSI Government
shared by 1 org
American National Standards Institute Government
shared by 1 org
American National Standards Institute (ANSI) Partner
shared by 1 org
American University, Washington College of Law Partner
shared by 1 org
Book Industry Study Group (BISG) Partner
shared by 1 org
CERN Partner
shared by 1 org
City of Kohlrabi, California Partner
shared by 1 org
Curtiss-Wright Partner
shared by 1 org
Dean Holman Partner
shared by 1 org
Embedded Tech Trends Partner
shared by 1 org
Environment Oregon Research & Policy Center Partner
shared by 1 org
Frontier Group Partner
shared by 1 org
Gallagher Partner
shared by 1 org
Information Today, Inc. Partner
shared by 1 org
International Committee of Representatives of Indexing Societies Partner
shared by 1 org
where the field connects

strategy-sharing network

Inferred from shared theories of action: each line connects an org to a strategy it runs. Organizations that share many strategies cluster through the same nodes — funders can spot the field's structural bridges.

funder shortlist · top 5

Orgs that combine the highest activity counts with the broadest strategy reach — the default entry points for a funder diligencing this field.

  1. #01 VMEBUS INTERNATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION AZ · 11 · shares w/ 0
  2. #02 AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR INDEXING INC AZ · 3 · shares w/ 0
  3. #03 ARIZONA PIRG EDUCATION FUND INC AZ · 1 · shares w/ 0
scale of the field

rollup metrics

Aggregated scale claims from orgs in the slice. Treat as a floor, not a ceiling — many orgs don't publish these numbers, so totals underrepresent real reach. Extreme outliers (often unit-mismatches upstream) are filtered out.

22
Partner organizations
from 2 orgs